National Health Expenditure Projections 2006-2016
February 20, 2007 National Health Expenditure Projections 2006-2016 The Office of the Actuary (OACT) in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) annually produces 10-year projections of health care spending for categories within the National Health Expenditure Accounts (NHEA). The NHEA track health spending by source of funds (for example, private, Medicare, Medicaid) and by type of service (hospital, physician, pharmaceuticals, etc.). To produce projections for total National Health Expenditures (NHE), OACT combines projections for Medicare and Medicaid spending (based on actuarial techniques) with projections for private health spending (based on a multi-equation structural econometric model . . .
